Selank and Semax reading list

Enzymes and anxiety

The human-plasma Selank experiment is the starting point for the home page. Beside it sit the review of Selank's molecular activity and the Russian anxiety trial. I return to this group because each paper approaches the anxiety question at a different scale.

The chronically stressed rats given Selank and diazepam add the interaction question. They were rats, and the combination included diazepam.

Regions and injury models

For Semax, start with BDNF protein in rat basal forebrain and neurotrophin mRNA across rat brain regions. The different cerebellar observations are a useful reason to read both.

Then come the immune and vascular gene-expression study after rat cerebral ischemia, the rat infarction and memory experiment, and the female-mouse spinal-cord-injury study. These deal with injury and recovery, distinct from healthy people's reports of focus.

Complete citations

The complete citation record follows. Several articles appeared in Russian-language journals, with English abstracts available through PubMed; the regional concentration and limited replication constrain how confidently these findings can be generalized.